What makes naked Agility diferent?

Our Mission: We believe that every company deserves high quality software delivered on a regular cadence that meets its customers needs. Our goal is to help you reduce your cycle time, improve your time to market, and minimise any organisational friction in achieving your goals.

Both as a 1 hour ScrumPulse and a team based workshop for the Dutch ALM UG I did sessions entitled Scaling Professional Scrum with Visual Studio Team Services. I showed how to use Team Services in the scope of multiple…

Learn Scrum from those that created and maintain it.

Professional Scrum Trainers bring their own style and experience to the courses, but use the same materials so that students are learning from the same content regardless of who teaches the course or where it is taught around the world. The result is a tremendously mature and capable set of training materials combined with Scrum experts who work together to realize our shared mission of improving the profession of software development.

Real world experience in Engineering Excellence and DevOps.

DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users. Using experiance shipping working software since 2000 and have been working on, coaching, and teaching Development Teams since 2010 we are able to quickly identify where your organiastion can focus on short term wins while working towards the long term stratagies that give you a competative advantage.

Experts in Evidence-Based Change for delivering agile at scale

Many organizations want to gain a competitive advantage by improving the value they derive from software development. They desire to take advantage of opportunities, respond effectively and deliberately to challenges, all while controlling risk and optimizing the return on investment. These organizations often turn to Agile processes such as Scrum, and embrace initiatives to become “Lean.”

Getting started with DevOps & Agility

With either in-person training or consulting in Agility & DevOps from international speaker, trainer, and author Martin Hinshelwood or reading our blog to explore relevant practices for both DevOps and Agility, your journey to get more working software faster starts right here.

Did you know that the DOD has made it illegal to do waterfall? For the first time in many years the Department of Defence (DOD) in the United States had made a major update to its procurement rules. They can no longer be held accountable for holding up our industry, and being culpable for its inability to move towards agility. The last vestiges of the old ways are gone.

To my understanding there is a frustrating misunderstanding of reality when one thinks that the Product Owner can reject a single story at the Sprint Review. This is the fallacy of the rejected backlog item.